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Installation Instructions
If you have a MATLAB license it is recommended to use MIB for MATLAB environment distribution of MIB suitable for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Otherwise use the standalone versions of MIB compiled for your operating system.

Run Microscopy Image Browser as standalone (Linux, x64 bit)
Tested and compiled with Ubuntu, version 18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and MATLAB version 9.7 (R2019b)

  • Requires 64-bit Linux
  • Download ZIP archive file with the recent release of MIB (MIB2_Linux.zip or use the releases section on GitHub for older releases
  • Extract the installer from the downloaded file MIB2_Linux.zip standalone startup
    Extract the installer
  • Double click on MIB2_Linux.install icon to start the installation process
  • Choose the installation folder
    (it is recommended to install MIB into an own home directory as demonstrated on the snapshot)
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    Choose the installation folder
  • Choose the installation folder for MATLAB runtime
    (it is recommended to install MIB into an own home directory as demonstrated on the snapshot.
    If MATLAB runtime is already installed, provide its location
    )
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    Choose the installation folder for MATLAB runtime
  • Accept the license agreement and press Next
  • Press Install to begin installation of MIB and MCR
  • Press Finish to quit the installer
    optionally, some additional tweaks may also be applied
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    Press Finish to quit the installer
  • Start MIB from terminal window using the following syntax:
    [location of run_MIB.sh file] [location of MRC]
    /home/ad/lxhome/i/ibelev/linux/MATLAB/MIB_deploy_2701/application/run_MIB.sh /home/ad/lxhome/i/ibelev/linux/MATLAB/Runtime/v97 standalone startup
    Start MIB using similarly formed command from terminal window


First start of MIB

How to start MIB in the standalone mode


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